Bug 689150

Summary:	Linux isn't reading the internal hard drive correctly.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David <dmchudzinski>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	14	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, rtguille
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Description David 2011-03-19 22:03:12 UTC

Description of problem:
250GB hard drive is viewed as a 1689TB hard drive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


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Actual results:
Disk has many bad sectors.

Expected results:
I can hook up the hard drive externally by USB and the hard drive is fine.

Additional info:
Model: ATA GDC GD#5#0CEGE'0#A#HGO# # # # # # # # 
Serial Number: #_#_#WG-GXG1G4#JGU#6
Firmware Version #1_0#A1#
Rotation Rate: 1816 RPM

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2011-03-22 00:14:39 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Additional info:
> Model: ATA GDC GD#5#0CEGE'0#A#HGO# # # # # # # # 
> Serial Number: #_#_#WG-GXG1G4#JGU#6
> Firmware Version #1_0#A1#
> Rotation Rate: 1816 RPM

I would guess that there is a problem with the cable.

Comment 2 David 2011-03-22 15:23:32 UTC

In this laptop computer there is no cable and I can get everything to work fine with my 40GB hard drive.

Comment 3 Reartes Guillermo 2011-04-01 21:20:51 UTC

@David

> 250GB hard drive is viewed as a 1689TB hard drive.

* 1689TB is the size fedora sees?

* what size does the disk report to the bios? (this is the first thing
to check, if the bios reports the same wrong size, then it may not
be a software issue)

* what size it does report to sysrescd (usb-booting)?

Tri these from Fedora and if you can from sysrescd:
# smartctl -a /dev/sdc (replace sdc with your disk)
# hdparm -I /dev/sdc (replace sdc with your disk

* is this problem a new one or it appeared suddently on a working disk/computer?

@Chuck

> I would guess that there is a problem with the cable.

If there is no cable, maybe a pin problem in the conector.

Several years ago, with an old 2.1gb quantum IDE disk, i jumpered it with
some unknown factory-reserved jumpers and it reported itself as 25GB more or less... i was happy for a short moment only, because the firmware only worked with the normasl jumpers of course.

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Comment 4 Josh Boyer 2011-08-24 14:48:54 UTC

Is this still an issue?

Comment 5 Dave Jones 2011-10-11 18:50:52 UTC

Pretty sure this is a hardware defect of some kind.